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Local students add music to the holidays

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
12/23/2012 06:39:26 AM EST

NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- David DeLuca of Burlington performed in the annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival. DeLuca, a Philosophy major, is a member of the St. Olaf Choir. He is the son of Michael and Emily DeLuca.

The St. Olaf Christmas Festival is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, the festival features more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra.

The festival, which is regularly broadcast nationwide on public television and radio, has been featured in hundreds of publications, including TV Guide, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Matthew Whiman of Chelmsford, a sophomore at Connecticut College, played the bass in the Connecticut College Orchestra's recent winter concert.

Whiman, a 2011 graduate of Innovation Academy Charter School in Tyngsboro, is the son of Lawrence Whiman and Shari Rick-Whiman.

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